About This Audio Book

This is an audio book called Mother Goose in Prose. That means people read the stories out loud, so you can listen to them.

Many different people helped read the stories. Here are their names:

Barbara Wedge, Westwinds12, Patricia Oakley, Andrew Lebrun, Christie Nowak, Julian Jamison, Cynthia Lyons, JemmaBlythe, Charlene Harris, Judy Bieber, Christiane Levesque, Brennan Holtzclaw, and David Barnes.

What's Inside

Here is a list of the stories, how long each one takes to listen to, and who read it.

Introduction – 9 minutes, 55 seconds
Read by: Barbara Wedge

Sing a Song o' Sixpence – 14 minutes, 10 seconds
Read by: Westwinds12

Little Boy Blue – 18 minutes, 22 seconds
Read by: Westwinds12

The Cat and the Fiddle – 10 minutes
Read by: Westwinds12

The Black Sheep – 9 minutes, 57 seconds
Read by: Westwinds12

Old King Cole – 13 minutes, 6 seconds
Read by: Westwinds12

Mistress Mary – 17 minutes, 36 seconds
Read by: Patricia Oakley

The Wondrous Wise Man – 12 minutes, 14 seconds
Read by: Andrew Lebrun

What Little Jack Horner Did – 9 minutes, 39 seconds
Read by: Christie Nowak

The Man in the Moon – 12 minutes, 29 seconds
Read by: Julian Jamison

The Jolly Miller – 10 minutes, 59 seconds
Read by: Christie Nowak

The Little Man and His Little Gun – 11 minutes, 42 seconds
Read by: Cynthia Lyons

Hickory Dickory Dock – 10 minutes, 32 seconds
Read by: Patricia Oakley

Little Bo-Peep – 12 minutes, 8 seconds
Read by: Barbara Wedge

The Story of Tommy Tucker – 10 minutes, 35 seconds
Read by: JemmaBlythe

Pussy Cat Mew – 7 minutes, 27 seconds
Read by: Patricia Oakley

How the Beggars Came to Town – 19 minutes, 18 seconds
Read by: Charlene Harris

Tom the Piper's Son – 8 minutes, 21 seconds
Read by: Judy Bieber

Humpty Dumpty – 16 minutes, 22 seconds
Read by: Patricia Oakley

The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe – 11 minutes
Read by: Christiane Levesque

Little Miss Muffet – 11 minutes, 49 seconds
Read by: Brennan Holtzclaw

Three Wise Men of Gotham – 16 minutes, 14 seconds
Read by: David Barnes

Little Bun Rabbit – 12 minutes, 29 seconds
Read by: Judy Bieber

This Book Belongs to Everyone

This audio book is free for anyone to use. It is what we call "public domain." That means no one owns it — it belongs to everyone!

The people who made this recording checked carefully to make sure it really is free for everyone to use. But they want you to know something: even after all their careful checking, it's still possible a mistake could happen.

Because this work is free for everyone, that means:

• No one can stop you from copying it.
• No one can stop you from sharing it.
• No one can stop you from using it in new ways — even ways that haven't been invented yet!

Anyone can use this book for fun, for school, or even to make money. That's what "public domain" means.

How You Can Listen

You can get this audio book in different sound formats. Think of formats like different-sized boxes that hold the same music — some are bigger, some are smaller:

• MP3 – a common format (128kbit)
• Ogg Vorbis – another sound format (64kbit)
• Apple AAC – made for Apple devices (16kbit, one-channel sound)
• Speex – a format made especially for voices